
Mary Modern
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Narrated by:
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Jenna Lamia
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Mara Demay Lawler
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Eric Conger
Lucy Morrigan, a young genetic researcher, lives with her boyfriend, Gray, in her crumbling family mansion. Surrounded by four generations of clothes, photographs, furniture, and other remnants of past lives, they are strangely out of touch with the modern world - except in the basement, where Lucy works in the high-tech lab she inherited from her father. Frustrated by her unsuccessful attempts to win tenure and bear a child, she takes drastic measures to achieve both: she uses a bloodstained scrap of apron found in the attic to successfully clone her grandmother.
Naturally, Lucy is hoping for a baby. Instead, she brings to life 22-year-old Mary. Alive in a home that is no longer her own, amid reminders of a life she has lived but doesn't remember, Mary is trapped in the strangest sort of déjà vu, and Lucy must face the truth about love, longing, and the ties that bind.
©2007 Camille Marjorie DeAngelis (P)2007 HighBridge CompanyListeners also enjoyed...




















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Enjoyable
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Very imaginative
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was okay....
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I truly believe that this book could have made the NYT Bestseller List; if not for a single mistake. Sadly, this book has a fatal flaw that disrupted the flow of the story so markedly that what might have been great was made mediocre.
The author could not resist political jabs at George Bush. The first time she referred to "Dubya" I was so distracted, I forgot what was happening and had to rewind at a crucial point in the plot.
By the third time, I found myself wondering more about why her editor would have allowed it than what was going to happen to the characters. I actually turned off my iPod to consider the question at a time when I should have been resisting the urge to fast forward to see what was going to happen next.
It was such a needless mistake. I can't imagine why she did not use a fictitious name for the Bush character, or why the author, editor, and publisher would all risk alienating more than fifty percent of their audience in order to make a political point. This is, after all, fiction.
It would have been a simple matter to add five years to the dating - which would allow readers of all political persuasions to insert the evil politico of their choice to become the presidential character.
If there had only been a few instances, it might not have been so bad, but by the time I hit part two, they had become so frequent, I began watching for them.
Readers who share the author's political view will be just as distracted from the storyline as those who are diametrically opposed to it, as I can attest.
I would say that the story is worth reading in spite of the political diatribes built in to it.
However, be prepared to be distracted.
Could have been great, but...
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This book is a modern spin on the 'Frankenstein'..
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Disappointment
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